stoy

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

In the past Apple included earpods with their phones, and this was a relatively small problem, but ever since they and other manufacturers stopped doing that, this behavior has exploded.

It is stupid, the people are getting a worse experience of the video while disturbing others.

The worst offenders are not the video people, but the speakerphone callers.

This annoys me even more than the speaker video people, simply because there is zero excuse. The phone has everything needed to hold it to your ear and talk without the speaker.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 25 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

It is also a problem for us IT guys, when we need to migrate users from one phone to another it is super annoying to deal with eSIMs

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 33 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

For me it boils down to it pretending to be different from Chrome while using the same rendering engine, thus keeping more power at Google.

As someone who lived through the time when IE was dominant and seeing the web stagnate until Mozilla released Firefox and began competing with new features and better speed, I never want to go back to a world with just one main rendering engine, we are sadly there again with Blink, but I am not going to support it.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

lol no.

Especially not one run by a techbro.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I live in a suburb to the north of Stockholm, I have experienced the GPS jamming first hand.

There were a few days when my car's inbuilt GPS thought I was driving around in another suburb on the other side of the city.

Does anyone know if GPS has the abillity to do signed packets?

I mean, I'd rather the GPS fail completely, than giving me false data.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Why is the Korean e-tailer Coupang feared?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

That is incorrect, they are just comically evil when it comes to protecting/creating business opportunities and preserving their power/influence, which is just 99.9%

Eh, who am I kidding, the US government is so tightly intertwined with business that their diplomats might as well be marketing officials for private industry.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

When I grew up here in Sweden, milk came in these containers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Brik

The design of milk packaging is quite interesting;

https://kommerduihag.se/kommer-du-ihag-hur-mjolkpaket-sag-ut-forr/

15 years or so ago the Brik was changed to this:

https://www.arla.se/artiklar/var-vanligaste-forpackning/

It was apparently done for two reasons:

  1. EU regulations started requiring that milk packages were sold in resealable containers.
  2. Customers had requested the same to enable storing the packages lying down.

A smaller version of the tetrahedron style package is still in use for coffee milk.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They don't have the capabillity to "admit" to anything.

You are falling into the same trap as the guy who had his development project deleted by an AI despite having had it "promise" not to do that.

The AI we use today don't have the understanding of "admitting" or "promising", to them, these are just words, with no underlying concept.

Please stop treating AI's as if they are human, they are absolutely not.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What makes the devs of RetroArch bad people?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ever since the start of internet connected vehicles this has been on the table, before it wasn't really possible to manage subscriptions like this, now it is as easy as changing $SUBSCR_INF_ACP from a 0 to a 1 on your account to enable CarPlay, once you have paid.

Though, to be fair, I would like better integration with the onboard systems, something like Carplay lite.

It would basically present the content on the phone, music, podcasts, audiobooks, maps, etc. to the onboard infotainment system.

Apps with audio media would appear as audio sources, inside the audio sources, any menu would be presented in a standard UI.

Basically, the phone would simply send something like an XML file of how the menu should be displayed, and the infotainment has a rendering engine to render the UI in a style that is integrated with the car's UI.

That would solve one of the biggest issues with CarPlay/AA, the forced touchscreen.

In my 2021 Seat Leon FR PHEV hatchback, I have a fantastic steeringwheel, it has plenty of excellent controls, regarding media, I have a volume wheel by my left thumb, I can also press it to pause the media, on the right side of the steering wheel I have buttons for skip/previous.

If I could interact with the menus in CarPlay using the thumbwheel and a separate back button, that would be amazing.

The wheel clicks when moving it, so if you could simply have it move the selection on the menu with every click it would be brilliant.

Though I would need another thumbwheel to set the volume....

My point is that if deeper integration of phone media in the infotainment system could enable a UI less dependent on a a touchscreen, I would love to try it.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
Paying back quickly reduces the amount they can earn, lowering your credit score.

Straight-up lie.

No, it doesn't fit the definition of a lie, I didn't know any better, so it was ignorance, not a lie, it would be nice if you could edit and correct this line.


The way I understand it, to raise your credit score you need to slowly pay back your loans, so you pay back maximum interest.

You don’t understand it.

I wholeheartedly agree with you there.


Overall you do seem to know the subject better than me, so I will mostly defere to your judgement (apart from the thing about me lying).

EDIT: Thanks for the edit! (:

 

I am seriously starting to question if YT have started selling packages where you can buy subscribers to your channel...

A few weeks ago I noted that I had been subscribed to three smaller channels of generic corporate slop videos, I unsubscribed naturally.

Today I was watching a video on my phone I suddenly noticed that as I was closing the video a pop up saying that I had subscribed to the channel, I was very confused as I was already subscribed to the channel I was watching, Hidden In Sweden (btw, the last video was very interesting), and I checked my subscriptions...

I had been subscribed to a random holiday home rental company in Spain's channel....

Are there ads that immediately subscribe you to a channel? What is going on?

 

You have a super majority in all branches of government, you don't need to consider other parties.

Where do you start, and what is your overall stratergy?

Will you get a second term?

 

This is a Planteray tasting giftbox, six bottles of different rum, five of which are dedicated to a specific bad person, for when I no longer share the planet with them, I printed ribbons on my label maker with the name of the person the bottle is dedicated to.

Interestingly, out of the five bottles I have dedicated, four of them are dedicated to a person with a "u" as the first or only vowel in their surname.

The current dedication goes out to:

Mr. Trump
Mr. Putin
Mr. Musk
Mr. Murdoch
Mr. Orbán

The fifth is as of yet undedicated, but if you have any suggestions, feel free to post them.

 

I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.

Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?

I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.

At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.

I have the following books in my library:

  • Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
  • The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
  • The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
  • The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
  • I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
  • Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...

 

You hear them bang on and on about this cycle:

Bad times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create bad times.

This is absolutely true, 100%

So the facists are right!

Too bad they confuse who the strong and weak men are...


Sorry for the rage bait title, I just wanted to joke a bit.

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This is a photo of four bottles of champagne each dedicated to Trump, Putin, Musk and Orban respectively for when the world no longer has to deal with their miserable existance.

 

Taken yesterday evening.

 

We are looking at upgrading our network equipment from old HP switches and Aruba access points, we have a Fortinet firewall that we are happy with, so we'll probably keep using them there, but for the rest we are looking for new stuff.

And we are looking closely at Ubiquiti for switches and APs, but two things have appeared on our radar.

Ubiquiti does have a cloud admin UI, this means that Ubiquiti needs to have access to our network controller to access this feature.

But what if we don't use that, will Ubiquiti still be able to access the network controller?

I guess that what I am asking is how does the access control work?

Also, updates, I see that they seem to be very frequent and also see some scattered reports that they have required admins to reset their configs and loosing camera footage, can you set updates to be delayed for X days?

 

I have posted about these bottles before, they are designated to be toasted when the world is freed from the respective person.

The ribbons are printed on a labelmaker in the P-touch series from Brother, and have the following names:

  • Trump
  • Putin
  • Orban
  • Musk

In these shit times this is my little protest against terrible people.

 
 

Earlier today, I saw the post about cow eggs, and just realized that most people don't know that tractors also hatches from eggs, you see these every summer on farmers fields but most people don't realize that this is an integral part of the lifecycle of a tractor.

Tractors lay a lot of eggs in captivity, but few survive to hatch a new tractor, most tractors you see come from the wild tractor populations around the world, this is also why no one has ever been able to take a photo of a tractor hatching from is soft shell.

 

Made by the same guy who later made Iron Sky

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